The NBA is still releasing highlight compilations from the 2014-15 season, and they’ve now transitioned to individual players’ best moments. Thank goodness someone saw fit to give Kawhi Leonard this treatment, because this is pure hoop-nerd crack. There are a couple of thunderous dunks and an alley-oop, sure, but this is Kawhi Leonard, the Defensive Player of the Year. If you click on this video, it means you want to see THE KLAW and the havoc he wreaks on any player stupid enough to show him an inch of the ball.
The beautiful contradiction at the heart of Kawhi Leonard is that his defense is some of the flashiest in the NBA (which is to say, viewers notice it more than most), even though he’s possibly the single least flashy personality in the whole league. Seriously, he makes Tim Duncan look like Shaquille O’Neal:
Terrifyingly, Kawhi is only 24 years old. He has plenty of room to improve his offensive game and truly become one of the very best players in the NBA. Perhaps the only reason he can’t improve his defensive game as much is that he simply doesn’t have anywhere to go. But enough theorizing and speculating. Kawhi doesn’t much care for idle talk. He just wants to STEAL YOUR SOUL (and also the basketball, but mostly YOUR SOUL):
